Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have apprehended two terrorists collaborators in Zaria, Kaduna State, who are linked to one Alhaji Abubakar, their financier. mi The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known at the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the armed forces on Thursday in Abuja. Danmadami said the suspects were apprehended on Sept. 15 at Access Bank, PZ Branch in Zaria while trying to withdraw the sum N14 million deposited into the account of the said suspected terrorist financier. He said the relevant agencies were working assiduously to track the said financier and others…
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday said as part of its ambitious programme, it would send its first female astronaut into space in 2023. The Saudi Space Commission launched an astronaut programme designed to groom Saudis to go on long and short-term space flights. The monarchy’s state news agency SPA reported that the first flight scheduled for 2023 will carry two Saudi astronauts including a woman, without giving further details. “This will mark an important historic event by sending the first Saudi woman to space,” the SPA said. According to the agency the monarchy will unveil a detailed national space strategy in…
India has won a United Nations award for its initiative to control and prevent hypertension under the government’s National Health Mission, officials said on Thursday. The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) is a large-scale hypertension intervention project which was recognized for its work within India’s existing primary healthcare system. The 2022 UN Interagency Task Force and WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award were granted to India for IHCI at a UN General Assembly side event held in New York on Wednesday. India’s federal Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in a statement said “this highly impactful initiative has received applause…
The Federal Government says the promise by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to ‘break the jinx’ in infrastructure financing, if elected president in 2023, is worn. According to the Federal Government, President Muhammadu Buhari has long done so. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister was reacting to the recent Economic Blueprint unveiled by Atiku, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections. “We state unequivocally, that the worst jinx in infrastructure financing was the PDP…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Area Command, says it has seized 75,000 litres of petrol, within bushes along Seme and Badagry, in Lagos. Comptroller Bello Jibo, Customs Area Controller, said this in a statement by Mr Hussein Abdulahi, the command’s spokesman, on Thursday in Seme, Lagos. According to Jibo, the seized containers of petrol were concealed inside sacks and Jerry cans. He added that the petrol seized had a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N19,785,000 only. “This is in continuation of our efforts to suppress smuggling of petroleum products within the nooks and crannies of the command. “The officers…
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday convened an emergency meeting following the withdrawal of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, ex-Information Minister, Prof. Jerry Gana, and other prominent party chieftains from the party’s presidential campaign council. The Wike camp announced their plan not to participate in the campaign council which was scheduled for inauguration next Wednesday after a meeting at Wike’s private residence in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Wednesday morning. They hinged their decision on the failure of the party’s Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu to resign from office, insisting that the…
The President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has said that when the strike is over, a large number of lecturers are going to leave Nigeria. Emmanuel Osodeke stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today. On Wednesday, the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in Abuja ordered the union to immediately suspend the ongoing industrial action. But during the interview, Osodeke said that no country think about the future of its youths would dare do what the federal government did to ASUU. He said, “When this strike is over, a large number of…
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday called on African countries and their Arab partners to work hard and be more united to realise common objectives. Speaking at a bilateral meeting with the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, in New York, President Buhari said the actualisation of the UN resolution which proposed a Two-State solution to the crisis between Israel and Palestine required a platform to think creatively on how to engage the rest of the world on the matter. “The rest of the world need to be apprised on current state of things between Palestine and Israel in order to commit to…
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has confirmed his readiness to keynote the 2022 conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) on Thursday, October 6, 2022, at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos. His confirmation was conveyed via a letter dated September 19, 2022 and addressed to the President of GOCOP, Maureen Chigbo. The Chairman, Planning Committee of the conference, Ken Ugbechie, said the theme is ‘2023 Elections: Managing the Process for Credible Outcome’ and will be chaired by Dr. Umar Ardo, Founder of Centre for Alternative Policy Perspectives and Strategy (CAPPS). Three panellists drawn…
The management of Ekiti State University says full academic activities begins on Thursday, Sept. 22. The varsity’s spokesman, Mr Bode Olofinmuagun, stated on Wednesday, in Ado-Ekiti that round-off lectures for second semester of 2020/2021 academic session holds between Thursday, Sept. 22 and Friday, Oct. 21. “The second semester examination for the 2020/2021 academic session holds between Monday, Oct. 24 and Saturday, Nov. 5,’’ he added. He stated also that lectures for 100-Level students admitted for 2021/2022 academic session would begin on Monday, Oct. 3. “Students should note that only duly registered students of the university will have access to all…